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Subject: Emacs customization
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Date: 12 Apr 90 01:19:22 GMT
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If you are using Unipress brand emacs, I can help you a lot.

The unipress release is not very good, but emacs is so flexible that
you can fix most of the anoying problems. The serious problems are another
matter. Your release should have a file ansi-iris.ml in the maclib directory.

You can configure it from inside emacs. Make certain that your
TERM environment var is set to ansi-iris ( This assumes that you are not using
a bitmap driver. That is initalized from another file ). Edit ansi-iris.ml
by changing the ""quoted literals by doing a control-q force literal command
inside emacs. You would 1) put the cursor over the "x", control-q<press the
button you want over the function you want bound to your key>, then
write-modified files, then reload the changed code by 'load iris-ansi.ml'.

Press the button you just configured, and if it does what you want, you
have cofigured you emacs. I have extended the buttons on the keyboard
by using a prefix key. A shift up arrow moves by screen fulls, if you want,
or a shift right arrow will move by words. You can make your emacs unusable
by anyone except yourself if you want.

I do not know gnu emacs, but I think that it should be similar. If anyone knows
better, I would like to hear from you too. I would like to see more
menu help and a function key label line on the screen. I am working on
making that for character terminals and the iris screen. If more people
are interested, I will post my efforts here.

dan.
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